Republicans signaled last week that the House would likely not vote
before the August recess on a postal bill from Rep. Darrell Issa
(R-Calif.), the Oversight Committee chairman, and Rep. Dennis Ross
(R-Fla.).

Senators and outside industry observers decried that
holdup, saying that any delay reduces the chances of lawmakers coming
together on a broad postal reform package. The Senate passed its own
postal reform bill in April, and key senators are waiting to negotiate a
compromise bill with the House.

“The longer the House delays reforming the Postal Service, the more
likely it is that nothing happens,” said Art Sackler of the Coalition
for a 21st Century Postal Service, a group that represents the
private-sector mailing industry.

The postponement of work on
the postal bill also comes as House GOP leaders have shown little to no
interest in advancing the chamber’s farm bill, another piece of
legislation that could be a tough vote for some in the Republican
rank-and-file.

At the same time, with the November elections less
than four months away, GOP leaders in the House have scheduled a series
of messaging votes meant to highlight the differences between the
parties on issues like healthcare repeal and extending current tax
rates.

That has left some observers concerned that, even if the
House can pass its bill after it returns in September, final
negotiations on a postal revamp could spill over into the lame-duck
session after the election.

Republicans are increasingly expecting to hold the House in November, so they figure they can delay all they want to. They figure the country won't punish them for continually trying to sink the economy under President Obama by wasting everyone's time with meaningless message votes and job-destroying cuts.

They're probably right. Of course, the fact that a large percentage of Postal Service employees are minority means that House Republicans can let the USPS fall apart, call for tens of thousands more job cuts, and then blame President Obama for the loss of middle-class jobs for African-American and Latino families.

Tatad, a Daly City woman, was allegedly upset because she believed her ex-husband was seeing another woman; the couple had divorced, but were still living together at the time she doused him with hot water, according to press reports.

Her fiery rage left him with second- and third-degree burns across 60 percent of his body, which eventually killed him, prosecutors say.

As if boiling water wasn't enough, as the man jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom, Tatad allegedly then hit him on the head with a baseball bat, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.

He had such a will to live that he still managed to flee and get the attention of a guard, who got him prompt medical attention. It just wasn't enough.

SAN DIEGO — In an afternoon packed with new footage from films like The Hobbit, Man of Steel andPacific Rim, Legendary Pictures head Thomas Tull sneaked in one more little surprise for the Comic-Con faithful: A sneak peek at his studio’s upcoming Godzilla remake.

Showing scenes of a dusty metropolis crushed into a pile of rubble complete with hollowed-out buildings, the less-than-a-minute clip’s voiceover — byJ. Robert Oppenheimer— intoned, “We knew the world would not be the same…. A few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture…. Vishnu takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now, I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’” Once the line was completed, the screen flashed to a brief look at a terrifying-looking Godzilla in profile.Without even saying what he was about to show, Tull told the Hall H diehards Saturday that he had something he wanted to share. What played was a short-but-oh-so-mouthwatering tease of the apocalyptic-looking Godzilla film.

“I’ve loved Godzilla since I was a kid, and frankly we just wanted to see a kickass Godzilla movie,” Tull said following the clip.

I've always wanted to see a kickass Godzilla movie, too. The one with Matthew Broderick wasn't bad, but it wasn't what I wanted. I wanted to see something more epic and show the full destruction of Godzilla's wrath.

President Obama chose Cincy’s Brent Spence Bridge as the backdrop to
introducing the American Jobs Act last year, and the Queen City is once
again in the spotlight today as he returns for another major visit to talk up his economic record here
and what it means to the tri-state. He’ll be at Music Hall around 2 PM
this afternoon. I’m hoping you have tickets, I’m stuck up here in Mason
for the day.

Obama is holding a town hall event in Cincinnati, one of
the state’s most heavily Republican areas. Ohio and Florida again are
shaping up as the most intensely competitive states in the presidential
race.

White House aides said Obama will cite news reports suggesting that
Romney’s plans for limited taxing of overseas profits by U.S. companies
would encourage foreign job growth. The two candidates have repeatedly
accused each other of outsourcing American jobs.

The White House said Obama will renew his call for extending the
Bush-era tax cuts on all households except those earning more than
$250,000 a year. Romney says the wealthiest Americans also should keep
their tax breaks because they are the most likely people to create jobs.

During the week of the Fourth of July, President Obama
visited Ohio to talk about a great American comeback story made possible
because of a bet on the American worker.

He visits Cincinnati today with the same message, reminding
residents of the choice between two very different economic visions,
placed on two very different kinds of bets. Where President Barack Obama
bets on America’s middle class, Mitt Romney bets against them. Where
Obama is moving us forward, Romney would hold us back.

And as a mayor, I believe there are two areas where that contrast is
most clear: economic security and public safety. Cincinnati is moving
forward with the president’s policies that invest in the soul of our
economy – our small businesses and manufacturers, teachers and safety
forces. We have more work to do, but our city has a partner in the White
House who understands how we leverage federal investments to promote
local growth.

The Enquirer of course is immediately complaining about the expected traffic snarl.
That’s the Enquirer for you. Still, I expect the President to continue
kicking ass on the trail like he did this weekend in Eric Cantor’s neck
of the woods. There’s a reason he’s following that up with a visit to
Orange Julius’s backyard today.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) raked in nearly $8.5 million in the second quarter of fundraising this year to protect his hard-fought GOP majority in the House.

According to a memo released by his political office on Sunday afternoon, the highest-ranking House Republican has raised close to $80 million dollars for GOP candidates – through his political committees, appearances at member events and contributions solicited from Boehner-signed National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) fundraising letters – since taking the gavel in 2011.

Cory Fritz , spokesman for Boehner’s leadership political action committee, The Freedom Project, attributed the hearty fundraising for House GOP races during a presidential election year, to the current policies of President Obama.

The Obama/Romney race is certainly important, but we have to remember legislation comes from Congress, and we need to win there even more badly. Should the GOP get control of the Senate and keep the House, we'll see nothing but another 2 years of useless votes...including ones on impeachment no doubt.

Should Romney win as well, you can kiss the last 80 years of legislation goodbye.

Ed Gillespie, a senior campaign advisor for Mitt Romney, appeared on Meet the Press this morning to answer questions about Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, and unveiled a new excuse for why Romney should not be held responsible for the company’s actions during a time in which he remained CEO and president:

GREGORY: He was still financially linked to Bain. And of course, a lot his fortune is due to his time with Bain. Even when he was on leave, does he stand by the business decisions that were made by the firm he created?

GILLESPIE: He actually retired retroactively at that point. He ended up not going back to the firm after his time in Salt Lake City. So he was actually retired from Bain.

"Retired retroactively" and got $100,000 a year for it. And he's still hiding his tax returns from those years. That's the most ridiculous thing I think I've heard so far this campaign season, and it included Perry, Bachmann, and Cain.

Mitt's campaign is openly bleeding now, and multiple Republicans are now calling for Romney's full disclosure, like William "The Bloody" Kristol.

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